Integration with vBulletin - Facebook Connect - Allow your users to login with their Facebook account

Facebook Connect
This add-on allows your guests and existing users to login with their Facebook account through Facebook Connect.

WORKS WITH 3.8!

Benefits of Facebook Connect

• Users can simply login with their Facebook account without going through the registration process.
• Increase user interaction and your traffic through Facebook notifications and news-feeds!

Features
Facebook users will be able to receive Facebook notifications when:

• There is a reply to their thread or a thread that they're subscribing to
• They receive a new PM

News-Feed will be published on to the user's wall when the user:

• Logs in for the first time
• Replies to a thread
• Creates a new thread

Fetch user data from Facebook
Fetch data like name, location, profile picture and use it on your forums! (NOTE: Some data may not be available for some users)

Automatically befriend user's friends
If any of the user's friends are also registered on the forum, they will automatically be friends!

How to Upgrade From 2.0.0 to 2.0.1

• Upgrade the product. (Import the product XML again and set overwrite to yes).
• Update Feed Template IDs in the settings (make sure they are the same as at: FB Connect Options -> News-Feed Templates)

How to Upgrade From 2.0.1 to 2.0.2
See UPGRADE.html

• Fixed the notification problem (notifications were sent to wrong people)
• Login button will now be displayed on vbAdvanced pages

How to Upgrade From 2.0.2 to 2.0.3
See UPGRADE.html

• Fixed the Facebook avatar displayed for the wrong people problem.
• Added Facebook UID & Profile URL field to data map.

Professional Install/Upgrade/Support Services
Want this mod professionally installed? It's guaranteed to work on your forum! Download the archive and see INSTALL.html/UPGRADE.html for more details!

Troubleshooting
Server Requirements:
PHP 5

If you get an error:

The Facebook Connect cross-domain receiver URL http://www.SITEURL.com/xd_receiver.h...%220.699%22%7D must have the application's callback URL http://www.SITEURL.com/forums/ as a prefix. You can configure the callback URL in the application's settings.

Means that there is something wrong with your callback URL. Your callback URL must be where xd_receiver.htm is; so when you enter [callbackurl]/xd_receiver.htm into your browser you should see a blank page (not a 404 page not found error or anything else).

If you get a continues this means there is a javascript error. Make sure you've done all the template edits correctly (especially footer & navbar). Clear your cache and reload the page.

If nothing happens when you click the Facebook Connect button make sure your callback url domain is the same as you forum domain (the one set in your forum settings) - more specifically make sure that there is a www (or isn't) in both domains.


Many more features may be implemented in the future so keep checking for updates.

[dxlwebs]

Originally Posted by dxlwebs

i know i keep askingbut it would be great if i could get an answer i updated last night to 3.8 but still the same problem

please help me my users are getting cranky

Originally Posted by GigaSb

im using Facebook Pro template and i cant make the next steps because i dont have this templates:

Template: navbar (the code isnt here!)
Find:
<!-- / login form -->

Insert After:
<!-- fbconnect -->
<center>
<span class="fbconnect" style="height:21px">
<img src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/images/loaders/indicator_white_small.gif" alt="Connect with Facebook" />
</span>
</center>
<!-- / fbconnect -->


AND

Template: USERCP_SHELL
Find:
<tr><td class="$navclass[password]" nowrap="nowrap"><a class="smallfont" href="profile.php?$session[sessionurl]do=editpassword">$vbphrase[edit_email_and_password]</a></td></tr>

Replace With:
<if condition="$bbuserinfo[fbemail]">
<tr><td class="$navclass[password]" nowrap="nowrap"><a class="smallfont" href="#" onclick="facebook_prompt_permission('email'); return false;">$vbphrase[fbconnect_email_settings]</a></td></tr>
<else />
<tr><td class="$navclass[password]" nowrap="nowrap"><a class="smallfont" href="profile.php?$session[sessionurl]do=editpassword">$vbphrase[edit_email_and_password]</a></td></tr>
</if>


anyway when i didnt edited this and i continued the install process i had BIG scrolling issue (Explorer) at the bottom.. u can see it here: http://www.freepchelp.co.il

just do a template search for the code and it will be there its not a problem if its in a differant template file like header it will still work

[GigaSb]

Originally Posted by dxlwebs

just do a template search for the code and it will be there its not a problem if its in a differant template file like header it will still work

i edited the default template instead of the "Facebook Pro" template.

1. I still have the scrolling error.
2. I cant login with my facebook account.

[nMIK-3]

Originally Posted by turbosatan

basically add this

Options +FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride FileInfo
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

if you already have rewriting on then you may already have the

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on

in which case just add

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

on the end of whatever is in there

Thanks for the reply, as I already said I fix the problem.

I ended up editing the .htaccess file.
I decided to redirect all the non-www addreses to www. So in the .htaccess file located in the root of my site I added the following

Options +FollowSymLinks 
RewriteEngine on 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite.com [NC] 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/$1 [L,R=301]

That redirected all non-www addresses to www.

All exept one! mysite.com/forum was still directing to the non-www address. This was happening because I had vbSEO installed. So note that if you have vbSEO you have to edit both .htaccess files. The one located in the main root and the second one located inside the forum directory.

So I solve this by editing the .htaccess file within the forum directory as well.
In the very top I added the following code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteRule .? http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

Now everything works smoothly :up:

Originally Posted by sllik

I think there is actually a better way than editing the .htaccess file. In the facebook app settings under the Connect tab set the Base Domain setting.

I tried this, with no luck at all... But my problem was solved as I describing above.

[Vinyljunky]

Hello,

I am running PHP 5.2.5

Will this work with VB3.8 and MySQL Version 4.1.20-log ?

Hope so

Thanks

VJ

[Cheertobi]

Hi,

does this Plugin only works with allow_url_fopen = on?!

Regards,

Tobi

[Phaedrus]

Does this work with the promotions? If I have them come in as a Registered user then promote them later to Verified user will it work normally?

[joluis]

Can you enable the multi-invite system from facebook like the facebook applications?. This will enhace and improve the registration ratio in our forums.

[GCC LLC]

Is there a way to actually get the pop up back after you choose it to not show up on a new reply?

I would like a way to have the option of publishing new threads, but not every post. I declined to publish a new post, clicked "Always do this for..." and now I can't get it back at all.

Any suggestions? Is this right in front of my face? lol

[sllik]

Originally Posted by Cheertobi

Hi,

does this Plugin only works with allow_url_fopen = on?!

Regards,

Tobi

yes

Originally Posted by GCC LLC

Is there a way to actually get the pop up back after you choose it to not show up on a new reply?


I would like a way to have the option of publishing new threads, but not every post. I declined to publish a new post, clicked "Always do this for..." and now I can't get it back at all.


Any suggestions? Is this right in front of my face? lol

unfortunately there is no way to bring the popup back after the user chose to never post news-feeds but if you set New Reply Feed Template ID to 0 the user won't be prompted for a new reply.

Originally Posted by fmckinnon

I'm very excited to have found this mod, and hope to install it. A couple of questions first:

1 - is there any known conflict with the vbulletin/wordpress bridge mod? We use this so that our forum members can also comment on the wordpress-driven portion of the site, etc. The mod basically shares VB users as WP users.

2 - just to make sure I'm understanding ... we require registration (which includes email activation) to create new threads or respond to threads. If someone comes along and logs in w/ their FaceBook account - will they be able to post immediately, or will the email activation go to them (or I assume, their FaceBook email account?)

Thanks in advance - will likely pay to have this installed if the answers are favorable.
http://www.theworshipcommunity.com/forums/

1. not sure, try and see I think it should be fine.
2. the mod assumes that the user has a valid email since the user confirmed his/her email when they registered for a facebook account.

Originally Posted by Big-K

Hi Slikk,

This is working great on my site. Thanks for helping with the install. Three questions

1. I have a vb login on the homepage of my site (non-vb page). Is there any way I can have Facebook Connect on this login page?

2. I don't have the vbconnect link like you have in the fourth screenshot. Is that an omission?

3. How can I re-associate a user an existing user with a different facebook account if its already associated with another.

sent you a PM

[sllik]

Originally Posted by Vinyljunky

Hello,

I am running PHP 5.2.5

Will this work with VB3.8 and MySQL Version 4.1.20-log ?

Hope so

Thanks

VJ

let me know how it goes